June Rudolph Day

Anyone else wishing for snow?

I'm delighted to be Guest Designing for the June Rudolph Day and thank goodness I made the card early while it was cooler, as my room is unbearably hot,

 

Last year I ordered the Gummiapan Advent Calendar but never even opened it as I was recovering from my back op. So I thought it was high time some of the got used. I found this pretty frame and the keep fit elf. I cut him out in white,coloured him green then decide he needed some red. I cut another in red and pieced his hat and trousers over the original green. I do hope you'll join in as there only another 5 to go before the big day!

Rudolph Day April

I've got a recycled card for Rudolph Day this month. I made the original card two years ago and had it written ready to post when Roy became ill so it never got sent. It seemed a shame to just bin it but couldn't send it this year with his name on! 

So I cut the front off and trimmed it down, then added it to a DL card blank. I coloured some silver peeloff borders with a red copic to edge it. Job done.

 

Challenges:

 

Rudolph Day 

Yellow Tulips

Another tulip card using up the last of the ones I cut out the other day. This time I made them yellow!  

I used another new Penny Black die as a background for them. I think it might have looked better if I'd raised it up a little with some foam tape.The sentiment is the same one I used before but inked with Rustic Wilderness this time.

 

Challenges:

 

Allsorts

NBUS

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

Simply Clean and Simple 

 

Springtime Tulips

I recently succumbed to some crafting retail therapy and among my purchases were some stamps and dies from Penny Black.

My first make with them used the Tulip Quartet dies.

 

 

Although I cut out all four I have only used two on this card. They were cut out of a cream snippet and coloured with Copics. The trellis for the background was another of my new purchases and is part of theDaffodils stamp set. I used Distress Oxide ink inFrayed Burlap for the trellis and sentiment, which is from Uniko. 

Challenges:

 

Allsorts

NBUS 

Snippets Playground 

Beery Birthdays!

I have two male birthdays very close together in April, so it was easiest to make two similar cards.

I used a Globeland set of stamps and dies that I bought some time before Christmas and which have been sitting on my desk crying out “use me!” I coloured the images with copics. I think the dies used for the mats are Memory Box but I’m not sure. Images and mats are all cut out of snippets.

This is the second one.

 

Challenges: 

 

Little Red Wagon

NBUS Challenge

Snippets Playground 

 

 

Rudolph Day March

This has to be the easiest,quickest and laziest card I've ever made! while i was looking through my box of card blanks I came across a leftover Hunkydory Card blank. It seemed asheme to just put it back in the box so decided I could use it for Rudolph Day. 

I added a couple of snowflakes that were languishing in the embellishments box, a ready made sentiment that was also a leftover and a little silver bell to the top of his cap.

 

Challenges:

Rudolph Day 

Rudolph Day February 2026

Well I've just noticed my last post was for Rudolph Day last October! Motivation has been at zero. I had very little all last year and it completely disappeared both before and after my back op. Hopefully I'm beginning to regain some as I have done two paintings as well in the last couple of weeks.

 

 

I used one of the stamps from Stampers Anonymous Festive Collage collection which I won last year from the Allsorts Challenge. Stamped in Rustic Wilderness and coloured the berries with a red copic pen to add a bit of colour. The background paper is I think an old SU paper. I was going to ink round the edges of the stamp panel but I decided against it as I rather liked the cleaner look.

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

NBUS challenge
 

Rudolph Day October

It's that time of the month again! October Rudolph Day is here,only one more before the Big Day, Not sure where this year has gone! Here's my card.

 

I used a NBUS die which I think probably came from a magazine, but I'm not sure,I've used it as if it is a sprig of mistletoe but the leaves don't look like mistletoe to me, so you'll have to imagine they do! I coloured the leaves with Copics the added aome white Nuvo drops to the berries with a little bit of a sparkly stickles as well. Then I wasn't sure what to do with it and tried several ideas, none of which I really liked. Eventually I thought about embossing folders and had a rummage through looking for something Christmassy. This one popped out and again I think from a magazine and definitely another NBUS item. I was quite pleased with the finished result - don't know why I don't use embossing folders more often.

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge

NBUS Challenge

The Holly and the Ivy Christmas Challenge 

Camping at 50!

My middle son recently bought a van which he is slowly converting to a camper van so they can have weekends away without spending on hotels. It was also his 50th birthday last month so I made him a hopefully suitable card.

 

The background was printed from  Craft Artist Daisy Trail Pin Up Chic collection. The image is from Dr Digi coloured with Copics and fussy cut. I used a speed limit sign for his age.

 

Challenges: 

CD Sunday Plus Challenge 

Kokeshi Doll

It's Roy's great niece's 12th birthday soon. For the last few years she has been very into unicorns but I'm running out of ideas for unicorn cards now, so asked her Mum what her current obsession was. Apparently it is still unicorns but also all things Japanese and Korean! So when I saw this Spellbinders die set of Kokeshi Dolls I had to buy it. It was a bit fiddly to put together but also quite fun.

 

I use a Globeland stencil for the backgound with Distress Inks,and of course it was perfect for using up a lot of snippets. 

Of  course I made things more difficult for me by only having about six square inches to work on, see my desk below!

Challenges:

 Snippets Playground

 Allsorts Challenge

Creative Crafters